Obama should confront Republicans with the $6 trillion in new federal debt they’ve voted for

Thursday

Dec 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM

In the coming tug-of-war over the debt ceiling, Congressional Republicans are counting on the likelihood that most Americans don’t realize that these same GOP lawmakers voted last year for $6 trillion in new federal debt.

But Matt Miller is PLEADING with President Obama to make the populace aware of this inconvenient truth:

To listen to the GOP…you’d think they support budgets that don’t add much to the debt at all. This is demonstrably, laughably, even shockingly false. But only a president can emblazon this fact on America’s consciousness and move it to the center of the conversation. Once you do, it will ...

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Pat Cunningham

In the coming tug-of-war over the debt ceiling, Congressional Republicans are counting on the likelihood that most Americans don’t realize that these same GOP lawmakers voted last year for $6 trillion in new federal debt.

But Matt Miller is PLEADING with President Obama to make the populace aware of this inconvenient truth:

To listen to the GOP…you’d think they support budgets that don’t add much to the debt at all. This is demonstrably, laughably, even shockingly false. But only a president can emblazon this fact on America’s consciousness and move it to the center of the conversation. Once you do, it will ...